eSoccer Edge (again!).
I wrote last week of the “battle” to be top dog tipster for May between eSoccer Edge and SharpBetting Football, and after a last day of betting on Friday a profitable day for the former and a loss for the latter meant eSE edged it. Take nothing away from SharpBetting though. It has played an absolute stormer!
Mayu has been a fantastic month, with the final ROI resting at 12.8% and the ROC (bank growth) figure at 28%. The fact that Weekly Golf Value gave us two big wins in one week and yet going into the final day of the month was the third most profitable service, says a lot.
Let’s start at the top then, and after coasting for the first half of the month, after which I was more or less level, the second half of the month was explosive. From the 26th to the 30th alone, I netted 661.5 points of profit. That’s total bank growth of 44.1%, which is quite phenomenal. 60%+ bank growth on the month!
My worry of course, is how much longer can that last before the dreaded restrictions kick in? I deliberately keep my stakes a fair way below the maximum allowed. Who knows if this is the right strategy? Might I be better off going all in and try and max out before I’m prevented from betting any more? Or do I make more in the long run doing it this way, trying not to draw attention to myself by keeping stakes sensible, feeding the odd slots game in the Casino, and making myself look like something of a mug punter on a winning streak?
What has been notable is that after commenting in here that prices had begun to disappear incredibly quickly, I’m currently finding that getting on is on the whole, a little easier again. I still wouldn’t want to hang around, but that immediate line movement we had started to see seems to be under control again, which is clearly a good thing.
As mentioned already, Weekly Golf Value has had a storming month and the overall ROI for this year has climbed to 46.7%. Yes, as with any golf service, WGV is not immune to long dry spells, nor to fairly wild short term down and upswings. But if you look at the record over years, it is incredibly consistent. Two winners in one weekend is always going to be a highlight of any year’s betting, and so much fun!
It was only over the last couple of days of the month that SharpBetting Football dropped away after what seemed like days and days of making a profit. There were one or two really strong days during the month, but mainly it was a steady return – something like 30 points of profit each day. There were times it just felt robotic (in a good way). Put the bets on. See how they did the following morning. Oh, there’s a steady bit of profit to add to the total. It was the very epitome of no frills, steady, consistent profit making, and I loved it!
Like I say, things dropped away over the last day or so, and since then I’m now sitting on comfortably the worst drawdown I’ve encountered since signing up, although it really isn’t that big. I mention it only to show that I’m aware that the service ran hot for me in May, and that at some point – and it’s possibly now – we’ll see a reversion to the mean.
Another to fall away a touch towards the end of the month was Tilt The Odds, but again not in any major way, and in fact when we look at the month’s ROI of 11.5%, then that really is very solid indeed. I guess this month the success of the the three services I’ve described above has cast a bit of a shadow. I’m also aware that I’m still struggling to get turnover anywhere near the level I would like it to be. Being practical, I think that’s likely to remain the case over the summer, and then I’ll be able to get more bets down come the autumn when I can concentrate on it on Saturdays, which in my experience was always the busiest day of the week for the service when I used it previously.
The only disappointment this month was The Value Machine Exchange Profit. Now I need to add in a massive proviso here, in that I was only able to strike the bets on one Saturday, and that turned out to be the biggest day of the month profit wise for me. I’ve no idea how TVM fared on the other Saturdays, but I do feel I’m being a little unfair if I don’t point out the fact that I will have missed a lot of bets (Saturdays generally being busy) that may well have completely changed the P&L for the month had I been able to get on.
Anyway, a disappointing month for TVM, but which service doesn’t have those? On we go.
May 2025 (stakes normalised)…
Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 994pts, +883.57pts, ROI 88.8%, ROC 58.9%
eSoccer Edge: Staked 6,140pts, +918.69pts, ROI 14.96%, ROC 61.24%
The Value Machine: Staked 2,124pts, -509.67pts, ROI -23.99%, ROC -33.9%
Tilt The Odds: Staked 593.25pts, +68.56pts, ROI 11.5%, ROC 4.5%.
SharpBetting Football: Staked 6,131pts, +744.87pts, ROI 12.1%, ROC 49.7%.
WinnerOdds Football: Staked 357pts, -8.47pts, ROI -2.3%, ROC -0.5%
TOTAL: Staked 16,339.25pts, +2,102.78pts, ROI 12.8%, ROC 28%